Lesser Known Facts About Lata Mangeshkar
By Hauterrfly Feb 06, 2022
Lata Mangeshkar loved photography. She had said, "Had I not been a singer, I would've been a photographer."
image: Instagram
Lata ji sang for three generations of actors from the same family— Sh0bhna Samarth, her daughters Nutan and Tanuja, and Tanuja's daughter, Kajol.
Shraddha Kapoor's maternal grandfather, singer Pandit Pandharinath Kolhapure, was Lata Mangeshkar's cousin.
image: Shraddha Kapoor / Instagram
Lata Mangeshkar had a brief acting career with roles in movies like Chatrapati Shivaji (1952).
In 1985, during a concert in Toronto, Canadian singer Anne Murray requested Lata ji to sing an English song. She then sang Murray's 'You Needed Me'. A rare instance!